Description
Originally published in 1984, Thou Shalt Not Be Aware explodes Freud's notions of infantile sexuality and helps to bring to the world's attention the brutal reality of child abuse, changing forever our thoughts of traditional methods of child-rearing. Dr. Miller exposes the harsh truths behind children's fantasies by examining case histories, works of literature, dreams, and the lives of such people as Franz Kafka, Virginia Woolf, Gustave Flaubert, and Samuel Beckett. Now with a new preface by Lloyd de Mause and a new introduction by the author, Thou Shalt Not Be Aware continues to bring an essential understanding to the confrontation and treatment of the devastating effects of child abuse.
Author: Alice Miller
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 10/15/1998
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780374525439
ISBN10: 0374525439
BISAC Categories:
- Family & Relationships | Abuse | General
- Psychology | Psychotherapy | Child & Adolescent
- Psychology | Developmental | Child
About the Author
Alice Miller, Ph.D., practiced and taught psychoanalysis for over twenty years before devoting herself to writing in 1979. She is the author of the bestselling Prisoners of Childhood (reissued in paperback as The Drama of the Gifted Child) and For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence, as well as numerous other books.